Bombarral
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Basic data | ||||||
Region : | Centro | |||||
Sub-region : | Oeste | |||||
District : | Leiria | |||||
Concelho : | Bombarral | |||||
Freguesia : | União das Freguesias do Bombarral e Vale Covo | |||||
Coordinates : | 39 ° 16 ′ N , 9 ° 9 ′ W | |||||
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Residents: | 13,193 (as of June 30, 2011) | |||||
Surface: | 91.28 km² (as of January 1, 2010) | |||||
Population density : | 145 inhabitants per km² | |||||
Number of municipalities : | 4th | |||||
administration | ||||||
Administration address: | Câmara Municipal de Bombarral Câmara Municipal 2540-046 Bombarral |
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President of the Câmara Municipal: | José Manuel Vieira | |||||
Website: | www.cm-bombarral.pt |
Bombarral is a small town ( Vila ) in Portugal with 5668 inhabitants (as of June 30, 2011). It is located in the Oeste sub-region .
As part of the territorial reform of September 29, 2013 , the municipalities of Bombarral and Vale Covo were merged to form the new municipality of União das Freguesias do Bombarral e Vale Covo . Bombarral is the seat of this newly formed community.
history
Finds of grave sites prove a settlement back to the Neolithic . The current place was first officially mentioned in the 13th century as Mon Barral . A first attempt to form an independent district from the municipality Bombarral failed in 1535 due to resistance from the district administration Óbidos , to which Bombarral belonged.
In the course of the Napoleonic Wars on the Iberian Peninsula , on August 17, 1808, the French troops under Delaborde met the Portuguese-British defense forces under General Wellington . From the battle called Batalha da Roliça , the defense forces emerged victorious.
In 1836 Bombarral became part of Cadaval County , and in 1855 it was re-incorporated into Óbidos. It was not until 1914 that the independent Bombarral district was created. In 1944 the place was elevated to a vila (small town).
administration
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Bombarral is the administrative seat of a district of the same name ( concelho ) in the Leiria district . On June 30, 2011 the district had 5668 inhabitants on an area of 91.3 km². The neighboring areas are (starting clockwise in the north): Óbidos , Caldas da Rainha , Cadaval and Lourinhã .
With the territorial reform in September 2013, the municipalities ( Freguesias ) Bombarral and Vale Covo were merged to form the new municipality União das Freguesias do Bombarral e Vale Covo . Since then, the district has consisted of the following four municipalities.
local community | Population (2011) |
Area km² |
Density of population / km² |
LAU code |
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Bombarral e Vale Covo | 6,821 | 29.54 | 231 | 100506 |
Carvalhal | 2,634 | 32.34 | 81 | 100502 |
Pó | 930 | 6.77 | 137 | 100505 |
Roliça | 2,808 | 22.63 | 124 | 100503 |
Bombarral district | 13,193 | 91.28 | 145 | 1005 |
Population development
Population in Bombarral County (1920–2011) | |||||||
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1920 | 1930 | 1960 | 1981 | 1991 | 2001 | 2011 | |
11.206 | 12,669 | 15.209 | 13,758 | 12,727 | 13,324 | 13,193 |
Municipal holiday
- June 29th
Town twinning
- Mozambique : Nampula (since 1997)
traffic
Bombarral is a stop on the Linha do Oeste railway line . The place is also connected with junction no. 11 to the A8 motorway that runs here .
sons and daughters of the town
- Francisco Pedro de Mendonça Gorjão (1686–1767), military and colonial administrator in Brazil and Madeira
- Vasco da Conceição (1914–1992), sculptor
- José Célio Mil-Homens Filipe (1928–2009), politician and pharmacist, resistance fighter against the Salazar dictatorship
- João Miguel Fernandes Jorge (* 1943), writer
- Margarida Marques (* 1954), PS politician, MEP since 2019
Web links
- Map of the Freguesia Bombarral at the Instituto Geográfico do Exército
- Official website of the city administration
Individual evidence
- ↑ www.ine.pt - indicator resident population by place of residence and sex; Decennial in the database of the Instituto Nacional de Estatística
- ↑ Overview of code assignments from Freguesias on epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu
- ^ Publication of the administrative reorganization in the Diário da República gazette of January 28, 2013, accessed on October 1, 2014
- ↑ www.verportugal.net , accessed January 18, 2013
- ↑ www.ine.pt - indicator resident population by place of residence and sex; Decennial in the database of the Instituto Nacional de Estatística
- ^ Publication of the administrative reorganization in the Diário da República gazette of January 28, 2013, accessed on March 16, 2014
- ↑ www.anmp.pt , accessed on January 18, 2013
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